A simple test of the nutrition-based efficiency wage model

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Swamy, AV
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3878(97)00004-7
• 发表日期: 1997
• 页码: 85-98
• 关键词: efficiency wage; nutrition; rural unemployment

摘要

In the nutrition-based efficiency wage model wages in labor markets in developing countries are rigid because lowering them would reduce worker productivity and increase the cost per efficiency unit. I evaluate this claim, using data from rural India. I find that, contrary to what has been assumed in these models, a wage cut should lower the cost per efficiency unit of labor. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.